Analyst, Android Research and Insights

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• 3 years of experience performing data analytics with SQL.
• Experience working with and analyzing data.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing multiple projects.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Ability to develop and validate hypothesis, apply inferential/causal techniques, build rudimentary statistical models as appropriate, to drive business recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About The Job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

In this role, you will create and share critical research and insights into users, countries/markets, competitive landscape, key technologies etc. with a view to informing strategies/plans. You will also support various executives business reviews across Android and Play - outlining the questions to be answered, while setting the metrics to track outcomes, and participating in the forums for discussion.

You will engage with executive leaders, scope business problems, structure and execute analyses independently, applying appropriate problem-solving techniques and present actionable recommendations.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $117,000-$172,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Engage with a range of business stakeholders, understand business goals and market environment to develop hypothesis, execute research or analysis, and inform product and business strategies in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Originate forward-looking insights for assigned product areas by collating internal and external research, combined with analysis of relevant user/device behavioral data, to synthesize into forecasts and opportunities for the product teams to invest in.
• Outline business performance metrics by monitoring business performance and competitive landscape, and support the creation of “State of the Union” insights to key leaders and stakeholders.
• Develop compelling presentations for leadership on business challenges and opportunities, and be a subject matter expert on assigned products, features, and associated strategies.
• Influence a cross-functional team to take action on developed strategies, highlighted opportunities, and priorities based on research activities.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.